Dear John,

        Yes, sometimes I do.  Especially, I have found, for "Hotmail" users, the
inability for them, to just 'select' quoted material, and then reply.
Invariably, it turns out the whole message, sometimes a page or more, gets
quoted.  Not sure if this is a "Hotmail" problem or not, but to answer your
question, honestly, yes.

        I've even privately written to some people about this, but it doesn't seem
to help.

Dan Frezza, SFO


> A non-scientific, question to list owners subscribed to LSTOWN-L:
>
> Have you ever wished your list could automatically reject posts with more
> than a certain ratio of old, quoted material (as determined by lines that
> started with either > or | characters) to new, original material?
>
> In other words, do you wish you could stop people from posting messages that
> consist completely of the text of a previously posted message, plus a very
> few original lines, sometimes consisting of something like "Me too"?
>
> -- John


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